Buchstabenorte

Typographic Maps, handmade screen prints

Our typographic city maps show all districts of a city in their actual borders. This results in a letter map, in which each district is located in the exact spot it belongs. They also feature numerous unofficial, grown areas and neighbourhoods in their exact spot, which you don’t normally find in regular maps. These quarters make the viewer identify with their own town and neighbourhood.

Another feature is that we keep the letters in their natural shape, without distortion or bending. This results in topography emerging from typography, as the font size determines the population density of a quarter.

We are printing our type posters as genuine screen prints, exclusively handmade in our own printing workshop. In screen printing, the paint forms an attractive contrast on top of the surface of the selected natural paper resulting in a high quality handmade product.